The nation's near terminal divisiveness precipitated the writing of Unremembered Victory, a press ready 49,000-word historical fiction account of an until-now unreported military victory. It introduces a new dot for the American people to hold onto to regain their mental moorings in this 50-year sea of shameful wars. Not just cash cows for empowering the powerful, a second dividend to private power is the loss of something we did not know we had to lose - the unifying force of an honorable military history. Officially named the '2nd Korean War' by the Army War College, occurring the same time frame as the Tet Offensive at the beginning of 1968, it is presented here as the counter to THE ONE STORY of our generation, Vietnam, a defeat full of obscenity, betrayal and disaster, with THE SECOND STORY, a victory full of honor, trust and glory.

It's about a thwarted North Korean invasion by 400,000 North Koreans soldiers blocked ONLY by 4,000 hapless, nobody, backwater GIs with ancient equipment assigned to the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Not to worry. This story has a nuclear option. Just saying no to a 2nd Vietnam, a news blackout kept 'the Line holding' from being news so that 'the Line caving' could also go unreported, making a nuclear response possible that would end the world without the muss and fuss of public opinion. The Line held. Almost one hundred (1 in 40) did not make it home (5X Grenada, Panama, and Desert Storm combined). We won with integrated troops, integrity, valor, even audacity, driven by seamless universal trust in the ranks, top to bottom, all 4,000 GIs up and down the Line, all the time, in the 'Zone'.

Even more compelling, all of the 4,000 (mostly draftees) were officially 'ordinary', randomly selected by the Pentagon from the middle of a bell curve of all GIs in service. All the West Pointers were at the bottom third of their class. All the hot shots were in Nam making rank. Though ordinary meant no one at the top, the bottom started ONLY with the qualified. ALL the mentally or psychologically unfit went to Nam and Nam only. Early on, an Anti-Infiltration Fence (AFI) was constructed along the DMZ some one mile south the Debarkation Line between the two countries. Missions north of the AFI meant possible death at any second from a snipers bullet and still the GIs could not stop grinning over NOT BEING IN NAM.

Read about the 4,000. Get to know the 4,000. Come to believe in the 4,000 and because they were just ordinary, know that you too could, at least, have been one of the 4,000. Man or woman, you could have faced the fire, even willingly taken the hit for all the right reasons. At the core of the book is the 4,000 GIs on the Line as SCREAMING CLEAR EVIDENCE that we are ALL A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN WE ARE TOLD. The book ends with this salutation said enough and we get America back.

'You had to be part angel to be on the DMZ the winter of '68, putting the interests of others so far ahead of your own. Americans have to be part angel to meet the TALL ORDER that must be met for there to be America - Everyone everywhere trying to believe in each other, all the time, no exceptions. Because of what Dan [me] witnessed on the DMZ in the winter of '68, he can never stop believing there will always be enough who are part angel to carry those who are not.'

Maybe a little over the top but one way to make this the biggest cult film since Easy Rider would be to present this story as a form of American Enlightenment training with a built-in self-congratulations upon perceiving yourself as (more) part angel.